The big bandit in the Red Mansion robbed Lin Daiyu at the beginning

"Master, how about we discuss this in detail?"

"What should we, the Wang family, do?"

"Master, what did the king of Qingfeng Village say?"

"..."

Listening to everyone's questions,

Wang Ziteng waved his hands distractedly and walked directly to the main seat and sat down.

Then he said to everyone in the hall,

"No one here today is an outsider, so I'll just say it directly!"

After everyone sat down, Wang Ziteng said solemnly,

"Everyone, my Wang family is now facing a choice of life and death, as well as the future of the next few decades!"

"First of all, my Wang family is not like the Xue, Zhen, and Jia families in the city. At worst, they can just give up everything in Jinling and go to Shenjing to make a comeback."

"But I, Prince Teng, am the commander-in-chief of Jinling. If I take you away from Jinling, you will have no place to stay in Shenjing or even the entire Daqian!"

Having said this, Wang Ziteng looked at the elders and said worriedly,

"Now that the imperial court is about to start a war in the north, it is possible that no reinforcements will arrive. If we continue to resist Qingfeng Village, Jinling City will fall sooner or later."

"But if we open the city gates now, what if Qingfeng Village is wiped out by the imperial court in the future? The imperial court will come to settle the score later, and my Wang family will not be able to escape the disaster!"

"Everyone, tell me, what should our Wang family do now?"

An elder asked tentatively,

"Then I wonder what the Patriarch proposed to Qingfeng Village yesterday..."

Wang Ziteng sighed and told Xue Pan the information he had obtained from him.

This immediately caused several elders of the Wang family to become red-faced and extremely angry.

"What? They only left 10% for my Wang family?"

"You are such a bold traitor! You still want the land that my Wang family has accumulated for generations?"

"No! You absolutely cannot agree to this!"

"At worst, we can just fight those rebels outside!"

"..."

Wang Ziteng shouted in frustration,

"Fight? What are you going to fight with? Are you going to fight or am I going to fight?"

"Qingfeng Village now not only has tens of thousands of troops surrounding the city, but also a 120,000-strong army composed of captured prisoners, which will arrive in Jinling soon!"

"Now that countless nobles and powerful families in the city have fled elsewhere, how can we defend the vast Jinling? And how can we fight against Qingfeng Village?"

Everyone fell silent after hearing this.

An elder of the clan said indignantly,

"We can't give 90% of it to Qingfeng Village! That's the accumulation of several generations of my Wang family. How can we destroy it in our hands?"

"That's right! Without those lands and all the accumulated wealth, can my Wang family still be one of the four great families in Jinling?"

"I don't agree with this either!"

"I also……"

Listening to the opinions of his tribesmen, Wang Ziteng became upset.

This is the worry of a big family. Of course, with the support of his clan members, he, the head of the family, can be sent to a higher position.

But he was also constrained in many ways and could not make the decision alone.

Finally, he stood up helplessly and said,

"Elders, please discuss this for a while. Allow me to think about it again!"

After saying that, Wang Ziteng stood up and left.

The elders of the royal family looked at each other, none of them saying a word.

Many of them understood their own situation and the situation in Jinling.

But the master of the family has 70,000 soldiers and horses, in their opinion,

If the city gates were opened directly, not only would they not be given high positions and generous salaries, but at least the royal family's property and some privileges would have to be preserved.

But they didn't expect Qingfeng Village to be so ungrateful and only leave them 10% of their wealth?

What will they do when their wealth is gone?

Am I going to make a living by farming like those peasants?

How could they accept this?!

……

By the next day, Wang Ziteng had not yet gotten up.

A servant came to report in panic.

"Master! It's bad, it's bad!"

"The second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and fourth uncles of the clan, as well as a few stewards, all, all..."

Wang Ziteng was shocked when he heard this. He pulled off the quilt, grabbed his clothes and rushed to the door.

He anxiously asked the servant outside the door,

"How's everything going?"

The servant said with a sad face,

"They all hanged themselves last night!"

"what?!"

Wang Ziteng's expression changed drastically, and he quickly ordered,

"Quick! Prepare the horses! Return immediately!"

A quarter of an hour later, Wang Ziteng returned to the tribe at full speed.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard the crying of family members everywhere in the mansion.

The housekeeper of the Wang family mansion hurried forward when he saw Wang Ziteng.

"Homeowner!"

Wang Ziteng asked in a deep voice,

"What's going on?"

The housekeeper cried,

"Everyone was fine after the meeting last night. This morning, the servants went to call for him but no one answered, so they searched everywhere in the mansion."

"Finally, in the ancestral hall, we found all the elders of the clan had hanged themselves!"

"We, the young ones, don't know why the elders are so pessimistic."

Wang Ziteng was shocked when he heard this, and he didn't care about anything else.

He rushed straight to the ancestral hall.

After arriving at the Wang Family Ancestral Hall,

Wang Ziteng was shocked to find that

The elders of the clan were also hung in a row, hanging quietly on the beams.

Moreover, Wang Ziteng also met a person who shouldn't be here.

I saw Xue Pan appear here at some point, looking at the feet hanging in a row and commenting on them.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Twelve people hanging together, what a spectacular sight!"